Wrong type argument: characterp... Everywhere

Wrong type argument: characterp... Everywhere

[Ian Szewczyk]

I recently installed Emacs 23 after uninstalling and older version and
starting from scratch, from here
http://ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl and have been
getting strange errors when loading up extensions.

For example if I try to setup msf-abbrev I get this error when I startup:

Wrong type argument: characterp, 134217869

Now I thought that maybe I wasn't setting it up right, or that it
didn't support Emacs 23. But I also tried installing packages from
ELPA (http://tromey.com/elpa/install.html) and with some of them I get
characterp errors as well,

....

Compiling file c:/.emacs.d/elpa/company-0.4.2/company.el at Tue May 19
01:56:26 2009
company.el:477:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, 134217966
\f
Compiling no file at Tue May 19 01:56:30 2009
\f
Compiling file c:/.emacs.d/elpa/js2-mode-20080616/js2-mode-pkg.el at
Tue May 19 01:56:30 2009
\f
Compiling file c:/.emacs.d/elpa/js2-mode-20080616/js2-mode.el at Tue
May 19 01:56:30 2009
js2-mode.el:1038:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, 134217864

.....

In magit-show-only-files-all:
magit.el:787:11:Warning: reference to free variable `magit-submode'
magit.el:1062:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, 134217905

.....

etc

Any idea on what's goin on? Some things work and some do not. This is
the version/system info:

This is GNU Emacs 23.0.93.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-05-09 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched)

Running on an XP SP3 machine.

Re: Wrong type argument: characterp... Everywhere

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Ian Szewczyk <roamzero@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently installed Emacs 23 after uninstalling and older version and
> starting from scratch, from here
> http://ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl and have been
> getting strange errors when loading up extensions.
>
> For example if I try to setup msf-abbrev I get this error when I startup:
>
> Wrong type argument: characterp, 134217869
...
> Any idea on what's goin on? Some things work and some do not. This is
> the version/system info:
>
> This is GNU Emacs 23.0.93.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2009-05-09 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched)
>
> Running on an XP SP3 machine.

Hm, I believe this could be a problem with nXhtml. Could you please
try turning off the loading of nXhtml?

Re: Wrong type argument: characterp... Everywhere

[Ian Szewczyk]

After further investigation, I found that what I needed to avoid
loading is tinylib. For some reason the tinylib files really don't
like Emacs 23! Everything seems to work now. Thanks for the response!

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Ian Szewczyk <roamzero@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I recently installed Emacs 23 after uninstalling and older version and
>> starting from scratch, from here
>> http://ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl and have been
>> getting strange errors when loading up extensions.
>>
>> For example if I try to setup msf-abbrev I get this error when I startup:
>>
>> Wrong type argument: characterp, 134217869
> ...
>> Any idea on what's goin on? Some things work and some do not. This is
>> the version/system info:
>>
>> This is GNU Emacs 23.0.93.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>>  of 2009-05-09 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched)
>>
>> Running on an XP SP3 machine.
>
> Hm, I believe this could be a problem with nXhtml. Could you please
> try turning off the loading of nXhtml?
>



-- 
IAN SZEWCZYK
roamzero@gmail.com

Re: Wrong type argument: characterp... Everywhere

[Anselm Helbig]

Hi!

> I recently installed Emacs 23 after uninstalling and older version and
> starting from scratch, from here
> http://ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl and have been
> getting strange errors when loading up extensions.
> 
> For example if I try to setup msf-abbrev I get this error when I startup:
> 
> Wrong type argument: characterp, 134217869

Could you do a M-x toggle-debug-on-error and give us a backtrace?

Regards, 

Anselm


-- 
Anselm Helbig 
mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com